Microsoft bites bullet, licenses Adobe's Flash Lite for Windows Mobile

by Thomas Ricker, posted Mar 17th 2008 at 6:33AM

Microsoft is expected to shore-up its much maligned Internet Explorer Mobile browser this morning by announcing new Flash Lite support. We have no idea when the new plug-in technology (including Reader LE for PDFs) might make it into Windows Mobile. Nevertheless, with the far superior Skyfire and Opera Mobile 9.5 mobile browsers already supporting Flash Lite, and Microsoft's own competing Silverlight not expected to go mobile until the end of the year, it can't be long now can it?

Filed under: Handsets, Software

Tags: adobe, flash lite, FlashLite, microsoft, reader le, ReaderLe, silverlight, windows mobile, WindowsMobile

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PeterF @ Mar 17th 2008 1:01PM

whats the big deal? you can just download those off the internet?

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pquistgard @ Mar 17th 2008 2:06PM

Yep, once again Microsoft only improves their browser because it might lose competition.

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Brad @ Mar 18th 2008 3:43AM

I am confused...wasn't Adobe Reader LE already installed on all WM6 devices? If not, where the hell did I get it and why didn't I have to pay for it?

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